Mainers are getting back to weekday routines today after a massive but well timed snowstorm paralyzed the Northeast this weekend.

The snowstorm some dubbed “Nemo” dropped the most snow ever from a single storm in the Portland area but did not prove record-setting in other portions of the state.

The Portland Jetport received an alltime record 32 inches, sweeping aside the previous official record of 27.1 inches set there Jan. 17-18, 1979.

The snow caused whiteout conditions, closed rail traffic and led to dozens of minor traffic accidents as it dumped 35 inches on Gorham, 32 inches on Berwick and 26 inches on Brunswick, according to unofficial observations reported to the National Weather Service. Winds in Bath topped 54 mph on Saturday morning.

The 1962 blizzard is still considered the worst on record for most of Maine, when 40 inches fell in Orono on Dec. 29-30, 1962. The usually frosty Caribou recorded only 6 inches this weekend, meteorologist Dustin Jordan said Sunday.

By Sunday, virtually all public roads were open across northern New England.

But as residents dig out today, they’ll be greeted with a combination of snow and freezing rain — and perhaps some clogged sewers and collapsing roofs.

Snow will change to sleet and rain near the coast first. Two to 4 inches of snow are expected across northern areas, with less than 2 inches in southern areas. Freezing rain may also create a glaze of ice for the foothills of western Maine, which is under a winter weather advisory today.

Despite the storm’s ferocity, Maine casualties were relatively few: The storm caused a 19-car pileup on Interstate 295 in Falmouth early Friday and was blamed for one death.

Police on Sunday recovered the body of a Passadumkeag man who became disoriented in blinding snow and drove his pickup into the Penobscot River.

Gerald Crommett, 75, apparently became disoriented in the heavy snow, driving into a tree Saturday and then continuing for 60 feet onto the Penobscot River, crashing into the icy water a mile from his house, officials said. Wardens used an airboat to locate the submerged pickup and divers recovered his body Sunday.

In Portland, a man was blown off a pier into Casco Bay early Saturday and had to be rescued by emergency crews. Elsewhere, two people were sickened by carbon monoxide poisoning related to the storm: one was stuck in a vehicle and another had a plugged heating vent at their house.

Locally, police marvelled at the size of snowbanks.

Phippsburg Road Commissioner Curtis Doughty and his crews did an incredible job of keeping the roads open, Police Chief John Skroski said.

The snowbanks on Sea Street off Popham Beach were huge, Skroski said, with “copious amounts of snow blown into this area by Percy’s Store.”

“The snowbanks were higher than my Ford Expedition on Saturday,” Skroski said. “I’ve never seen that amount of snow and wind flying through Popham. It took two or three dump trucks hours to get through the snow banks at Popham.”

In Bath, crews wound up a long weekend that had begun at 6 a.m. Friday by cleaning up the city’s streets Sunday night.

The roads were narrow and the snow piled up earlier in the day, according to Lt. Stanley Cielinski, but Public Works got the job done.

“We weathered it quite well,” Cielinski said. “Public works cleared the downtown last night.”

Cielinski reported that several alarms went off in businesses due to the high winds.

Brunswick police and Sagadahoc Sheriff ’s Department reported a quiet weekend, but it was a busy time for public works employees.

John Foster, director of the Brunswick Public Works Department, said crews worked from 7 a.m. Friday until about 3 p.m. Saturday, then returned at midnight to continue plowing, sanding and salting the town’s 140 miles of road.

Seven trucks were hired to help clean up the snow from the center of Maine Street, using a large snow blower that can fill a truck in 15 seconds, Foster said. Crews will continue to clear and push back snow today, and the sidewalk tractors will be out clearing more of the 34 miles of sidewalk in town.

In Portland

Portland Public Services Director Mike Bobinsky said crews were focusing on removing snow from downtown, where 8- to 10-foot snow banks hampered visibility. In the coming week, crews will work to clear 100 miles of sidewalks and venture into neighborhoods.

Portland officials estimated it could take four or five days to clear all the sidewalks.

“We’re counting the days until spring,” he joked.

Sam Napolitano of South Portland said he’d worked 15 hours before getting a few hours of sleep and reporting back for the final 24-hour stretch to get commercial parking lots cleared.

He wasn’t complaining, though. He said he appreciated the snow and the overtime pay.

“It’s like dollars from the sky,” he said. “That’s the way I look at it.”

The storm caused hundreds of thousands of power outages in the Northeast, but very few in Maine.

Central Maine Power reported 9,815 outages at the height of the storm, mostly in Cumberland, Waldo and Oxford counties. Bangor Hydro Electric Co. reported 3,373 customers without power early Saturday, mostly in Hancock and Washington counties.

Utility crews from as far away as Georgia, Oklahoma and Quebec raced to restore power. By early today, less than 150,000 customers still had no electricity — down from 650,000 in eight states at the height of the storm.

Power was restored to all homes and businesses in Maine and New Hampshire on Sunday.

REPORTING WAS contributed by Times Record staff writers Darcie Moore and Larry Grard; Associated Press writers David Klepper, Frank Eltman and Bob Salsberg; and Bangor Daily News staff writers Jen Lynds, Judy Harrison and Seth Koenig.